Introduction to Google Analytics

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1 Introduction to Google Analytics

2 Introduction to Google Analytics This guide is designed to give you the basic overview on Google Analytics and information on: How many people are visiting your website How people are finding to your website What pages on your website are most popular For more detailed instructions on how to use Google Analytics, you can visit the help guide ( or view the training videos at the Analytics Academy ( Opening Google Analytics Go to and click on the Sign In. Once you ve entered your Google account log in details, you ll be taken to the Google Analytics Home. Here you will see the list of websites you have set up in your Google account. Unless you manage multiple sites, it s likely you ll only have one listed here. Click on your website to view the analytics for that site. This will take you to the reporting page. Analytics Education Google Analytics has a range of short videos on their reporting stage that explain various aspects of Google Analytics. You may find these videos useful. There are different videos for each section of Google Analytics (audience, acquisition, behaviour and conversions). If these videos do not appear automatically, you can find them by clicking on the graduation hat that appears on your reporting home page (outlined in red below).

3 Changing date range Changing the date range allows you to focus only on data collected during a specified time period (for example, the traffic to your site over the past month alone). This is done by clicking on the date range that appears in top right hand corner of the screen.

4 Navigating Google Analytics When you first open the reporting tab in Google Analytics, it will take you directly to the Audience overview. However, the audience is only one of several different areas within Google Analytics, all of which can be accessed in the left sidebar. Dashboard: allows you to create a customised view of you Google analytics data without having to navigate through your normal reports. Shortcuts: Allows you to create shortcuts to your favourite links in Google Analytics Intelligence Events: allows you to set up an alert within Google analytics that will you if a certain event occurs or goal as reached (for example, you reach have a dramatic number of visits within a particular timeframe). Real Time: allows you to see who is on your website right now. Audience: This section can provide data on your audience, such as their demographics, behaviour and the technology they use to access your site. Some aspects (such as the demographics of your audience) require further tracking codes to be added in order to access this data. Acquisition: This section can be used to analyse how your viewers came to your website (for example, via an organic Google search, paid Google ad, from another website etc). Behaviour: This section shows what your audience do when they reach your site. It can be used to analyse how they explore your website and what pages are most popular. Conversions: This section allows you to set goals to measure whether your website is meeting your objectives. If you sell your product or service online, it also allows you to track the ecommerce section of your site. From here, you can use the Mutli-channel functions to see how your marketing channels work together to create sales or conversions.

5 How many people visit your site? Google Analytics collates data not only on how many people visit your site (referred to as a session ) but also how many pages are viewed (referred to as a pageview). For example, a person may visit your site (recorded as 1 session) and visit three different pages on your website (recorded as 3 pageviews). To view this information, select audience in the left sidebar, and then overview. You will see from the example above, that there were 22 sessions and 39 pageviews from 29 October to 4 November. This means that there were 22 visitors to the site. Over these 22 visits, 39 pages were viewed. Google analytics will also collate information on whether the person visiting the site was a new visitor or a returning visitor. Out of the 22 sessions on the website, 27.3% were run by a visitor who was returning to the site. 72.7% of the sessions were run by a user who was visiting the site for the first time.

6 How do people get to your site Google analytics also collates data on how people get to your site. This can be viewed by going to behaviour>overview in the left sidebar (outlined below). Google breaks down the data in two ways the top channels and the top sources.

7 Channels: Channels refer to groups or categories of sources. Here is a description of the most common channels: Organic search: traffic that came to your site via a search engine such as Google. Organic means that your website appeared due to its relevance to the key words the visitor used in the search engine (opposed to being a paid advertisement). Referral: Traffic that comes from another website (not including social media websites) Social network: Traffic that comes to your website via a social network (not including paid ads on that social network) Direct: a visitor that came to the site as a result of directly typing in your website URL into their browser. Source: The source is the place where the traffic originated (for example, Google, Facebook, an association that links to your website, direct traffic etc). You can view this information on the acquisition overview page by selecting the primary dimension as Top Sources (outlined below).

8 Why are unknown sources referring people to my website? You may find that you have strange websites referring people to your website, such as semalt.semalt.com or AVG. Often these are not what we usually consider a visitor but rather a program that is incorrectly recorded as a person visiting your website. AVG: anti-virus software that checks websites for spyware etc Semalt.com is a keyword research programme or robot that is incorrectly recorded as a visitor to your website. These programs can often be frustrating as they can skew your website statistics. For example, Google Analytics can show you the website bounce rate (how many people visit one page on your site and then leave without visiting any other pages). The semalt robot is recorded as a bounce, which can give the impression that you have a high number of people simply visiting your homepage and then leaving. However, it is possible to filter these sources out of your results. Removing Traffic Sources from Analytics You can remove a particular traffic source from your acquisition data in google analytics by using the following guide: Keep in mind that filters only affect future data. It won t exclude a source from the traffic already collected.

9 What pages on your website are most popular? You can see what pages on your website are most popular by going to behaviour>site content>all pages (outlined in red). You can change the way the data is presented by choosing from the buttons on the right (outlined in yellow). This data allows you to see not only which pages are viewed the most frequently but also the average time a person spends on that page. Entrances refer to the number of times in which a person has come to your site directly to that page (rather than navigating there from another place on your website). It s likely that your homepage will have the highest percentage of entrances. The bounce rate refers to the number of times a visitor has arrived directly to a page on your website and then left before visiting any other pages. The exit rate shows where people are leaving your site. Unlike the bounce rate, it also records the number of people who leave after visiting other pages on your website.

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